Robust and novel blind watermarking scheme for H.264 compressed video

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to design and implement robust and novel watermarking scheme for H.264 encoded videos. The method used for watermarking is multi resolution wavelet decomposition. The watermark used is a binary image. This watermark is embedded in the wavelet coefficients of the LH, HL and HH sub-bands of the third wavelet decomposition level by quantization. We have tested the resilience of the watermarking algorithm against series of different attacks for different H.264 compressed videos. The results shows embedded watermark is invisible and robust to attacks.